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The title pretty much says it all, but I'll elaborate for those of you who clicked this link. I was making stuffed jalapenos at work, which involves cutting them in half and gutting the seeds and stuff out of them. Which means you get covered in a ton of jalapeno juice. Normally I wear gloves when working with these evil green plants. Today we were out of gloves. I figured since I've done this before without more than a mirror burning on the back of my fingers, it would be fine. Wrong!!! My hands honestly felt like I was holding them in a fire! For over 4 hours!!! All I could do at work was rinse them in cold water. Once I got home I went through a ton of crap. I tried and eliminated milk, vinegar, baking soda, rubbing alcohol, aloe vera, tomatoes, whiskey mixed with some other medicine I can't remember, and some other medicinal cream that's supposed to have asprin in it. I even gave mouth wash a shot ><;! What FINALLY stopped the burn was tooth paste! I'm guessing the ingredients helped to scour away some of the oil while depositing some of it's own oil into my skin. And peppermint oil is sooooo much better than jalapeno oil! I repeated the washing, then rubbed some peppermint extract in my hands. Now the burning is all gone, and I have a newfound hatred for those villianous veggies, if they even are vegetables. And people sure as hell better appreciate the pain that went into those stuffed jalapenos!!!!!